Why Does the Same Hazard Event Verify In Its Severity From Place To Place?

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Introduction

Why does the same hazard event verify in its severity from place to place? Discuss with reference to relevant examples. Natural Hazards are dangers arising from geological or weather-related occurrences, such as earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes and tsunamis. Earthquakes are a natural hazard and become a danger when human life and man made structures interact with natural events like earthquakes. ...read more.

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Earthquakes nearly all the time occur on plate boundaries, These tectonic plates rub together and cause friction, which causes an earthquake . I will now compare an MEDC and a LEDC, which was hit by an earthquake to roughly the same Richter scale and show how the severity was different. ...read more.

Conclusion

Perhaps the greatest resource from volcanoes is the land formed by the materials given out. Volcanic activity has created some of the most scenic and fertile region on the earth. However it can also have an opposite effect and actually destroy land, which has been developed for human use. Like earthquakes most volcanoes are found near plate boundaries across the world ...read more.

Take your pick. Most tephra cools very quickly as it falls so unless you are very close to the source of the tephra it's only a nuisance. In 1980, when Mount St Helens exploded, I watched scenes on the TV of the tephra falling all over the place like black snow.

Gas and water supplies were cut off, as were most telecommunication links. The Hanshin expressway collapsed, but it was built to withstand earthquakes measuring as much as 8.3 on the Richter scale. The total cost of the earthquake was �60 million.

It cannot tell us much about exactly when they will occur. For that, we must study in detail the plate boundaries themselves. Perhaps the most important role of plate tectonics is that it is a guide to the use of finer techniques for earthquake prediction.

However the reality is that due to the number of disasters that occurs in this place it is heavily dependent on NGO?s and aid from foreign countries like China, this however is unlike the case in California, who can support themselves during an hazard.